Back in the early 1990’s the long term findings of the 1960’s Walter Mischel  “ marshmallow study ” were released. When I read the...

Pay attention.   As a child, that phrase meant to stop whatever else I was doing and focus on the requested activity.   The phrase,...

Help! My Child Is Hitting Me! By Maren schmidt Four-year-old Jason hit his mother, Rebecca, with his fists and kicked her ankles. Rebecca...

My Amygdala Made Me Do It! Written by Maren Schmidt Learning to control impulses is an important task for our children, and all of us, to...

"I was a wonderful parent before I had children. I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three...

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An effective, yet, counter-intuitive teaching and parenting suggestion took me a while to understand and put into use. The idea? “Don’t...

At a neighborhood coffee, my friend, Cheryl, announced that she had stopped eating sugar for several months. Several women gasped at the...